Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,780 5,507 7,057
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.67% 22.87% 19.13%
As % of the General category 34.41% 35.67% 33.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,992 3,675 4,922
10th Percentile £356 £355 £360
25th Percentile £447 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £592
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.83% -1.38%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 96 237
10th Percentile £14.82 £18.36 £12.78
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.55 £14.50
Median hourly rate £24.41 £40.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.35% +49.07% +5.02%
75th Percentile £56.68 £65.00 £38.12
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.63 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £42.29 £27.00
% change year-on-year -39.98% +56.62% +0.58%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 22,611 15,439 21,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.26% 64.12% 57.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,839 9,972 13,632
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £744 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,554 701 1,818
10th Percentile £14.11 £13.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.16 £28.00 £30.44
Median % change year-on-year +11.27% -8.00% -4.65%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.75 £52.35
90th Percentile £80.08 £75.00 £67.38
UK median hourly rate £30.08 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.67% -7.12%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London 0 4,697 £575 -6.12% 3,377
North of England +3 1,206 £492 +5.13% 841
South East -1 643 £500 -4.31% 912
North West +5 637 £465 +3.33% 500
Midlands -2 597 £492 +3.58% 524
Yorkshire +2 529 £519 +8.87% 269
West Midlands 0 408 £500 -2.13% 307
South West -2 362 £525 - 361
East of England +1 195 £520 -9.57% 252
East Midlands 0 184 £468 +6.36% 216
North East -17 41 £488 +7.73% 80
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 280 (3.60%) Confluence
2 198 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 76 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 58 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
5 45 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
6 44 (0.57%) Apache
7 25 (0.32%) SAS
8 23 (0.30%) CMS
9 20 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.19%) CICS
11 14 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.17%) Appian
13 12 (0.15%) Camunda
13 12 (0.15%) IIS
14 10 (0.13%) Jupyter
15 9 (0.12%) Ethereum
16 8 (0.10%) HCL Notes
16 8 (0.10%) Mendix
17 7 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 6 (0.077%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 445 (5.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 180 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 152 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 148 (1.90%) Microsoft Project
5 111 (1.43%) MS Visio
6 45 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 34 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.064%) Notion
8 5 (0.064%) Trello
9 4 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.051%) Sketch
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.026%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.026%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.026%) InVision
10 2 (0.026%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.013%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.013%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.013%) UXPin
11 1 (0.013%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 279 (3.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 106 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 94 (1.21%) Oracle Payables
4 81 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
5 78 (1.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 63 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
7 45 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 45 (0.58%) Oracle General Ledger
8 40 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
9 38 (0.49%) SAP FI
10 35 (0.45%) Aladdin
11 31 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
11 31 (0.40%) SAP CO
12 29 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
13 27 (0.35%) Oracle Assets
13 27 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 21 (0.27%) SAP BRIM
14 21 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
14 21 (0.27%) Workday HCM
15 20 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 1,237 (15.90%) Azure
2 897 (11.53%) AWS
3 544 (6.99%) Power Platform
4 379 (4.87%) GCP
5 270 (3.47%) SaaS
6 268 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
7 249 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
8 208 (2.67%) GitHub
9 200 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
10 151 (1.94%) Snowflake
11 142 (1.83%) Entra ID
12 128 (1.65%) Serverless
13 100 (1.29%) Power Automate
14 99 (1.27%) Amazon S3
15 95 (1.22%) OCI
16 89 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
17 84 (1.08%) OpenShift
18 79 (1.02%) dbt
19 76 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
20 71 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 141 (1.81%) Firewall
2 113 (1.45%) Network Security
3 65 (0.84%) DNS
4 63 (0.81%) VPN
5 55 (0.71%) WAN
6 52 (0.67%) TCP/IP
7 35 (0.45%) BGP
8 32 (0.41%) LAN
9 30 (0.39%) HTTP
10 27 (0.35%) DHCP
10 27 (0.35%) SSL
11 26 (0.33%) OSPF
12 24 (0.31%) MPLS
12 24 (0.31%) Multicast
13 21 (0.27%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (0.27%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.27%) VSAN
14 19 (0.24%) VLAN
15 14 (0.18%) DMZ
16 13 (0.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (5.95%) Power BI
2 216 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 205 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 149 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 141 (1.81%) Metadata
6 130 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 127 (1.63%) Tableau
8 111 (1.43%) Data Lake
9 87 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 68 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 65 (0.84%) Big Data
12 62 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 54 (0.69%) BigQuery
14 45 (0.58%) MongoDB
15 44 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 41 (0.53%) Power Query
16 41 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
17 40 (0.51%) Delta Lake
18 39 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
19 32 (0.41%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 592 (7.61%) JIRA
2 179 (2.30%) Git
3 138 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 87 (1.12%) GitLab
5 45 (0.58%) Cucumber
6 44 (0.57%) JUnit
7 36 (0.46%) Selenium
8 29 (0.37%) Postman
9 27 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 24 (0.31%) MLflow
10 24 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 24 (0.31%) Visual Studio
11 19 (0.24%) REST Assured
11 19 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 18 (0.23%) Maven
13 17 (0.22%) ERwin
14 15 (0.19%) Hudson
15 14 (0.18%) TeamCity
16 13 (0.17%) Bitbucket
17 11 (0.14%) Mockito
General
1 2,263 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 1,455 (18.70%) Banking
3 1,024 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
4 441 (5.67%) Public Sector
5 314 (4.04%) Financial Institution
6 312 (4.01%) Legal
7 291 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 278 (3.57%) Front Office
9 257 (3.30%) Retail
10 234 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
11 199 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
12 180 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
13 137 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 135 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 135 (1.74%) Marketing
15 126 (1.62%) Law
15 126 (1.62%) Local Government
16 123 (1.58%) General Ledger
17 112 (1.44%) Billing
17 112 (1.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,164 (14.96%) Analyst
2 868 (11.16%) Senior
3 810 (10.41%) Lead
4 788 (10.13%) Developer
5 731 (9.40%) Architect
6 613 (7.88%) Project Manager
7 611 (7.85%) Business Analyst
8 506 (6.50%) Consultant
9 303 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
10 268 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 203 (2.61%) Senior Manager
12 193 (2.48%) Financial Analyst
13 167 (2.15%) Data Analyst
14 160 (2.06%) Accountant
15 156 (2.01%) Programme Manager
16 153 (1.97%) Finance Manager
17 147 (1.89%) Software Engineer
18 145 (1.86%) Senior Developer
19 144 (1.85%) Java Developer
20 137 (1.76%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (2.94%) .NET
2 228 (2.93%) REST
3 224 (2.88%) Kafka
4 211 (2.71%) React
5 171 (2.20%) Middleware
6 163 (2.10%) Oracle Fusion
7 132 (1.70%) Spring
8 130 (1.67%) Spring Boot
9 121 (1.56%) RESTful
10 98 (1.26%) Node.js
11 96 (1.23%) PySpark
12 90 (1.16%) AngularJS
13 87 (1.12%) Redux
14 71 (0.91%) JSON
15 70 (0.90%) OAuth
16 67 (0.86%) XML
17 60 (0.77%) CSS
18 59 (0.76%) Pandas
19 58 (0.75%) HTML
20 55 (0.71%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 349 (4.49%) Onboarding
2 340 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 305 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 217 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 188 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 166 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 151 (1.94%) Derivative
8 141 (1.81%) Fixed Income
9 140 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 139 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
11 138 (1.77%) Data Centre
12 127 (1.63%) Distributed Systems
13 113 (1.45%) Equities
14 93 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
15 92 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
16 91 (1.17%) Public Cloud
17 89 (1.14%) Virtual Team
18 80 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
19 78 (1.00%) AI Agents
20 69 (0.89%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 263 (3.38%) Windows
2 246 (3.16%) Linux
3 122 (1.57%) Unix
4 64 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 42 (0.54%) Windows 10
6 36 (0.46%) Solaris
7 29 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 26 (0.33%) Android
10 23 (0.30%) zOS
11 17 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 16 (0.21%) AIX
13 7 (0.090%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.077%) Oracle Linux
14 6 (0.077%) VMS
14 6 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.051%) HPUX
15 4 (0.051%) MVS
15 4 (0.051%) SUSE
15 4 (0.051%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,623 (20.86%) Agile
2 1,583 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,096 (14.09%) Migration
4 1,015 (13.05%) Problem-Solving
5 875 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 847 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 835 (10.73%) DevOps
8 798 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 779 (10.01%) ERP
10 766 (9.85%) AI
11 759 (9.76%) Analytics
12 713 (9.16%) Project Management
13 668 (8.59%) Decision-Making
14 656 (8.43%) Data Modelling
15 639 (8.21%) Roadmaps
16 636 (8.17%) Validation
17 615 (7.90%) Business Intelligence
18 589 (7.57%) User Acceptance Testing
19 552 (7.10%) Change Management
20 510 (6.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,094 (14.06%) SQL
2 946 (12.16%) Python
3 526 (6.76%) Java
4 333 (4.28%) C#
5 215 (2.76%) JavaScript
6 207 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 163 (2.10%) PowerShell
8 90 (1.16%) C++
9 69 (0.89%) Bash
10 67 (0.86%) Go
11 64 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 61 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 50 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 49 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 42 (0.54%) Scala
16 38 (0.49%) VBA
17 28 (0.36%) Bicep
18 27 (0.35%) Apex Code
18 27 (0.35%) Rust
19 26 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 673 (8.65%) Degree
2 613 (7.88%) Security Cleared
3 434 (5.58%) SC Cleared
4 201 (2.58%) ACCA
5 197 (2.53%) PMP
6 181 (2.33%) CIMA
7 166 (2.13%) PMI Certification
8 132 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 124 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 123 (1.58%) CISSP
11 83 (1.07%) Master's Degree
12 74 (0.95%) CISM
13 70 (0.90%) DV Cleared
14 68 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 52 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 40 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
17 39 (0.50%) AWS Certification
18 32 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 31 (0.40%) DBS Check
20 30 (0.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 469 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 355 (4.56%) QA
3 291 (3.74%) PMO
4 270 (3.47%) GDPR
5 151 (1.94%) NIST
6 127 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 107 (1.38%) IFRS
8 95 (1.22%) SLA
9 88 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 81 (1.04%) GRC
11 70 (0.90%) Accessibility
12 61 (0.78%) PCI DSS
13 55 (0.71%) GAAP
14 53 (0.68%) ISO 20022
15 34 (0.44%) PSD2
16 33 (0.42%) NCSC
16 33 (0.42%) SEPA
17 28 (0.36%) IFRS 17
18 25 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
18 25 (0.32%) SOC 2
System Software
1 267 (3.43%) Docker
2 149 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 52 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 29 (0.37%) vSphere
5 24 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
6 23 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
7 17 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 15 (0.19%) VMware NSX
9 11 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 11 (0.14%) NFS
10 7 (0.090%) GPFS
11 6 (0.077%) KVM
11 6 (0.077%) RACF
12 5 (0.064%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.051%) SRDF
14 3 (0.039%) GridGain
14 3 (0.039%) Oracle RAC
15 2 (0.026%) ACF2
15 2 (0.026%) Ceph
15 2 (0.026%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 361 (4.64%) Kubernetes
2 222 (2.85%) Terraform
3 111 (1.43%) Ansible
4 78 (1.00%) Grafana
5 65 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (0.54%) SCCM
8 32 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.23%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.22%) Control-M
10 17 (0.22%) vRealize
11 15 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 15 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 13 (0.17%) AirWatch
12 13 (0.17%) Nessus
13 12 (0.15%) Puppet
14 11 (0.14%) Argo
14 11 (0.14%) CASB
15 9 (0.12%) vCenter Server
16 8 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1,010 (12.98%) Microsoft
2 637 (8.19%) Oracle
3 634 (8.15%) SAP
4 267 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 230 (2.96%) Databricks
6 184 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 170 (2.19%) Google
8 117 (1.50%) Workday
9 109 (1.40%) Splunk
10 106 (1.36%) VMware
11 95 (1.22%) Cisco
12 81 (1.04%) CyberArk
13 77 (0.99%) IBM
14 64 (0.82%) Citrix
15 56 (0.72%) OpenAI
16 53 (0.68%) Ariba
17 52 (0.67%) Sage
18 47 (0.60%) Bloomberg
18 47 (0.60%) IFS
19 44 (0.57%) Murex
5,889 Finance jobs in England